Comments on: Notes on HP and armor

By: Anafielle

Anafielle — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:57:37 +0000

I have not hit BQL on 25 yet. (sigh…. casual guild with severe attendance problems.) I assume that on 25 I will be in max stam gear, soaking Blood Mirror hits, since I am the OT.

However, on BQL 10 man, I just wanted to make a note. I OT-ed that in ret gear + prot spec. I guess 30k-ish buffed HP is enough to soak those Blood Mirror hits with appropriately OP healers, and even still in prot spec I managed about 4k DPS!

I guess my MT has enough armor that the Blood Mirror hits on me are small enough that I can “offtank” it in DPS gear :)

By: Lanaka

Lanaka — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:46:24 +0000

“Yep, gemming will remain the same. I think the only item enhancement change I will make is enchanting my cloak for armor. I’ll miss my parachute…”

This is what I’m doing right now as well, and, even with the nerf to Prot Paladin Stamina scaling, I still find myself over 45k unbuffed. I can’t wait to get my hands on Unidentifiable Organ and Sindragosa’s Flawless Fang. So much health…

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:22 +0000

@Soul: Haha! I use a dps weapon and make sure I'm at least soft expertise capped for that fight so I can bring some serious pain during the offtanking-with-9-stacks period. I loves it. @Senet: Seriously, I need more bags for all the random pieces I keep for threat/armor/stam/avoidance "sets". @Joe Ego: I watched the video and it was awesome, thank you for sharing!

By: Soul

Soul — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:47:08 +0000

it is hard to use mitigation gear on festergut cause there is chance in that fight to show my guildies who owns in dps :-)
so I put my dps set which I made with 4000 ap ub and I rock the meters and laugh.
still easy to heal me and when I hear over vent: “wtf?!?”, “I had lag couldnt dps”, “nerf prot palas” and such things it is just to precious not to do it.

:-)

By: Senet

Senet — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:02:57 +0000

I think personally I would still keep my agility on my cloak. Armor is great but I still like the avoidance even in ICC.

If I get a second cape that’s decent then I will enchant the secondary one accordingly for mitigation on armor.

Anyone else need 40 slot bags?

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:01:36 +0000

Yep, gemming will remain the same. I think the only item enhancement change I will make is enchanting my cloak for armor. I’ll miss my parachute…

By: Yoggie

Yoggie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:29:07 +0000

Will you be stacking stamina on your new armor pieces? Will you be gemming them the same way you have gemmed in the past?

By: Nasi

Nasi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:32:12 +0000

Something we found out with the blood mirror on the blood queen was that our Druid ot stacked shadow resist gear til about 330 and it turned out that he actually took the least amount of damage of the raid (according to our pally healer). Also, on the princes, I took the second boss and had seal/judgement of light for around 230-240 hps. Not huge, but seeing as how you get ages to build threat (hammer of wrath is available the whole time!! Great to pull the boss with) it can really help.

By: Joe Ego

Joe Ego — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:07:41 +0000

At the mention of Saurfang, I figured I’d drop by and post my Typhoon strat video. I added it to the comments on the earlier post but I wanted to make sure it didn’t fall off the stack too early.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBnBuh014ow

By: TonabShin

TonabShin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:42:45 +0000

Even if that is so for Saurfang, the more avoidance you have, the slower blood stacks he gains, correct me if I’m wrong. Taking armor for certain fights is definately the way to go, within reason. Having the two stamina trinkets still goes a lot further, the main reason people were, and still are going for the armor emblem items is because they offer a lot more armor, keeping a good amount of hp, even over some of the 264 tier items. Not to mention the other useful stats they give, like expertise.